Mademoiselle de Margaux from the Medoc makes a divine chocolate-covered cherries - a blend of dark chocolate, preserved cherry / griotte and Armagnac called La Guinette. But they are only available in France - too perishable! Cherries in general have a short shelf life. They should be refrigerated quickly and unwashed. If you don't use your ripe cherries within 6 days it's best to freeze them. But then you'd need to pit them.

You really can't do a cherry post without including Pierre Herme's "Cherry on top" gateau. I've often wondered if the marks on the vertical side are a cutting guide? This is so tall, it could be used like the height marks your mom put on the wall.

If you eat the above chocolate + cherries your chances of fitting into Marseille's Le Temps de Cerises $200 buck jeans are practically nil.On the other hand, take away the chocolate and you might make it.Just 90 calories for 21 cherries makes a nice snack. Plus 2 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber! Did you know cherries are sized by rows? This dates from when the cherry industry packed the top layer of cherries in neat rows. If 10 cherries fit in a row snugly, that size becomes a #10. A 9-row cherry (considered the largest and probably too large for the best flavor.) A 12-row is the smallest.Back to painting cherries.

Ah Cherries...nothing like eating them fresh off the tree. Our neighbor has two huge cherry trees she shares with us, so lately we have been standing around eating right from the tree & visiting ;-) A slice of heaven. Love how you paint cherries they look so real.Cris in OR

Your cerisses are superbe!!!I´m watching them while I´m eating Spanish cerisses(from El Jerte Valley,one of the best in Spain)You know,with the cerisses once you start you can´t stop eating!!have a nice cherry day ;D

Oh cherries in Paris. My memory is my husband (who loves stone fruit) about to pick out his own bag of cherries at a fruit store there and me trying to get him to STOP before the owner see's him as you are NOT to do your own (unlike here in Australia - help your self) the owner was not happy but he saw me trying to tell him before his big paws picked them up and smiled and my husband let him take over. Oh, I thought we would have a huge fight on our hands for a moment but it was OK , especially when my husband told him he wanted peaches, nectarines ......... LOL

CHERRIES are the memory fruit I guess...so special.I grew up hearing how my sister at 5 was warned not to get cherry stains on my Grandfather's elegant white suit..You know the outcome of that warning!I grew up with a cherry tree next to our house. The race to see who would get the cherries - the birds or us, was always a Spring challenge.

We had three tall cherry trees in our orchard, and they ripened at different times. More than once one of us kids climbed too high for comfort, but somehow we always managed to get down, and if it was letting yourself fall down to the next branch, catching it with your hands. Somehow we were acrobats, back then. And I shall never forget the taste of the sweet black cherries, which ripened last. ;-)

Whenever I buy cherries I take them home, melt some chocolate and dip them in before eating them. Fortunately in the UK the cherry season is really, really short - about 2 days :)otherwise I woudn't get my butt into a tent.

What fun! I love cherries, too. They're so delicious and such little balls of ruby color and shine!Did I tell you that Pierre Herme was closed last timei tried to go--after my husband and I had made a special trek to the one in the 15th, too!Your post reminds me I'll have to try again in September!Merci!

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